Science comes to Life A review of the first five years including the Centre’s close involvement with East schools Origins of Centre of the Cell Ten years ago the science campus of QMUL was rather desolate and disorganised; the development of the Blizard Institute was intended to reverse many years of low investment. An innovative design from architect Will Alsop resulted in a vast subterranean laboratory floor Centre of the Cell is a unique housing 400 scientists, covered by a rectangular glass box cell-shaped science centre suspended housing offices and ‘Pod’ meeting rooms. Thanks to the above a real biomedical research foresight of microbiologist Professor Mike Curtis (who laboratory in the heart of London’s subsequently became the first Director of the Blizard Institute and has been a major contributor to Centre of the East End. This digital interactive public Cell’s success) a space for public engagement was part of engagement project is based in the the original architectural brief. Hence one of the Pods in Blizard Institute at the Whitechapel the glass box took shape as a bright orange cell-shaped medical and dental campus of Queen structure suspended above the lab benches. Mary University of London, QMUL. By 2003 the construction of the Blizard building was Centre of the Cell is one of the few, underway but £4 million extra was needed for the complex digital fit out of the Centre of the Cell Pod and its website. perhaps the only, science education From a standing start, a fundraising campaign achieved centres in the world to be situated this target with important support from donors including inside a research lab. Since opening Wellcome Trust, London Development Agency, QMUL, Clore in September 2009, over 100,000 Duffield Foundation, The Mercers Company, Garfield people have participated in Centre of Weston, Jack Petchey, Esme Fairbairn Foundation, Glaxo the Cell activities with approximately Smith Kline and the Ingram Trust. In all forty different Trusts, Foundations and individual supporters donated to Centre one million visits to the interactive of the Cell’s capital campaign. website www.centreofthecell.org. The motivation for Centre of the Cell was the local This brochure describes Centre of the population of the East End, an area of social deprivation and Cell’s first five years of operation, poor health, with a large immigrant population. There was the evolution of the project in response a need to inspire and motivate the local school children into to audience demand, the impact higher education and to site a science centre in an area that would not traditionally be anticipated to draw a large of siting a major public engagement audience. For these reasons, prior to opening in 2009, there project within a research laboratory, was an extensive front-end evaluation of the project plan and its particular success in working with the local audience, as described in more detail below. with local schools. Centre of the Cell aims Centre of the Cell has five main aims: to inspire the next generation of scientists and healthcare professionals; stimulate dialogue, interest and excitement about biomedical research; raise aspirations, especially in the local community; widen participation in further and higher education and to help improve health and wellbeing especially in East London.

Top-level Message Although Centre of the Cell’s activities cover a wide range topics in biomedicine and the life sciences, they all relate to the project’s top-level message: ‘Your body is made of millions of cells. People here and all around the world are trying to find ways to make cells better. You can help keep your cells healthy’. This top-level message gives the project both identity and focus. Engagement with the Local Community Between 2003 and 2009, Centre of the Cell conducted a comprehensive front-end evaluation of the ideas, learning aims and top-level message of the project with local East London schools and community groups. Not only did this have a strong impact on the evolution of the project but also it engendered a feeling of ‘ownership’ in our community and built up a post-opening audience. Case Study The impact of a local charitable foundation – the Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation The Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation is an educational charity that exists to benefit young people from Tower Hamlets. Between 2010 and 2013 funding from the Foundation enabled an Outreach Officer at Centre of the Cell to develop strong relationships with local schools. This role was pivotal to Centre of the Cell’s success in providing world-class educational resources for school pupils in Tower Hamlets. Umme Aysha started as Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation Tower Hamlets Outreach Officer in March 2010. During her first year in post, 2,371 Tower Hamlets school pupils participated in Centre of the Cell activities, with 43% of Tower Hamlets schools reached by the end of the year. The role grew from strength to strength with 4,216 Tower Hamlets school pupils participating in the second year. By end of first two years, 57% of the 75 primary schools in Tower Hamlets had taken part and 87% of Tower Hamlet’s 18 secondary schools participated in Centre of the Cell activities. During the third year that the Aldgate and Nobith started volunteering with Centre of the Cell in Allhallows Foundation Tower Hamlets Outreach Officer was Summer 2009, immediately after completing his GCSEs. in post, 5,168 Tower Hamlets school pupils participated in During his time volunteering, Nobith found the advice Centre of the Cell activities. and support he received from the team invaluable – such Umme Aysha was a great success in the role, and with as advice on university life, help with A level choices and the support of Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation by end of interview practice. This led to him to consider applying to the three years 81% of Tower Hamlets primary schools had universities outside London, such as Cambridge University. taken part and 100% of Tower Hamlets secondary schools. Nobith started studying Medicine at Cambridge in 2011, The Aldgate and Aldhallows Foundation generously with the generous support of an Aldgate and Allhallows extended their funding for another year towards our Youth Foundation scholarship, which was obtained with the Membership Scheme (more details of the scheme can be assistance of Centre of the Cell staff. In 2014 he moved to seen later on in the brochure). Barts and The London to complete his clinical years, and he This funding contributed towards: plans to start volunteering with Centre of the Cell again in • One-week or two-week work experience placements Summer 2015. As Nobith said in a recent meeting with us: for 25 young people aged 14–18 “Without Centre of the Cell, I wouldn’t have • 8 Revision and Mentoring sessions for 43 young people applied for Cambridge.” • 23 Careers workshops for 416 young people aged 11–18 • Volunteering opportunities for 20 young people “Centre of the Cell has been there for me – We are very grateful to the Foundation for their support. I won’t forget how they have supported It has enabled Centre of the Cell to become embedded me throughout.” within our local communities and provided innovative educational opportunities for young people in Tower Hamlets. The Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation has been very One example of how Centre of the Cell activities can have pleased to support the Centre of the Cell in its formative a positive widening participation effect is illustrated by the years. The Centre’s outreach work engages school benefits experienced by a local school student, Nobith. students and their teachers, university researchers and clinicians, medical and related undergraduate students. The numerical reach alone of the Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation Tower Hamlets Outreach Officer’s work described in this document is remarkable. But numbers are not all. While focusing on cell biology and biochemistry and medical advances the Centre of the Cell also shows school students and their parents and friends the excitement and wider career possibilities associated with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (the ‘STEM’ subjects). All this is done with great care in planning (eg relating the Pod experiences to school syllabuses), delivery and subsequent improvement through evaluation. We congratulate everyone involved and look forward to experiencing the Centre’s future innovations.

John Hall (Chairman), David Mash (past Chairman) and Richard Foley (Chief Executive) Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation, April 2014 Day to day activities – Science Shows, Workshops and Lectures From the outset, the Pod shows were very popular with schools during term time and with family groups in school Day to day activities – The Pod Show holidays, often booked at full capacity of three Pod shows each day, but it soon became apparent that the audiences The Pod is at the heart of all Centre of the Cell activities. wanted more. Hence, we have devised a number of science The design of the Blizard building allows visitors to see shows, workshops and public lectures in collaborations scientists at work while safely entering the Pod without between the local community groups, QMUL scientists and disrupting the research environment. The major target the Learning Team at Centre of the Cell. There are now audience is young people aged 8–18 and their families. eight science shows each lasting about 45 minutes with Each Pod show, for 30–40 visitors, is an immersive many opportunities for audience participation (with titles theatrical experience lasting approximately 60 minutes such as ‘Snot, Sick and Scabs’ and Teethtastic’) and five which uses sound, lighting, film, digital interactive games workshops which also last for 45 minutes but have multiple and objects to educate, inform and engage with cell biology activities or ‘stations’ for the audience to engage with (for and biomedical research. Website content (e.g. digital example, ‘Microbe Detectives’). Twelve Big Question interactive games and lesson plans) can be used pre- and lectures have been delivered by leading experts at a post-visit to enhance the learning experience. general teenage audience with titles such as ‘Should you From Sept 2009 to Sept 2013, Centre of the Cell was able be allowed to genetically design your own baby?’ and to offer the Pod show to schools free of charge. This was ‘Will there ever be a cure for cancer?’ as a result of funding received from Queen Mary University Centre of the Cell’s Outreach programme, delivering of London and Trusts and Foundations including The science shows, workshops and lectures, has been a big Aldgate and All Hallows Foundation, The Mercers’ success and continues to grow from strength to strength. Charitable Foundation and Leathersellers’ Charitable Trust. The science shows and workshops have been developed as a result of funding received from Queen Mary University of London and Trusts and Foundations including the Heritage Lottery Fund, Heart Research UK, British Heart Foundation and The Mercers Charitable Foundation. A % Day to day activities – 100 Widening Participation and the Youth Membership Scheme 80 After two years of operation, some of the local teenagers who were especially interested in medicine and the life 60 sciences asked for more intense interaction with Centre of the Cell. Hence, Centre of the Cell’s Youth Membership 40 Scheme, YMS, began. Centre of the Cell is a teenager- friendly portal to the science world – young people often 20 find out about us through school trips and this seems to make us approachable. YMS LONDON The YMS scheme is open to young people aged 14–19 0 and offers work experience, volunteering and hospital IN HIGHER EDUCATION TRAINING placement opportunities, careers advice, the chance to meet scientists and healthcare professionals as well as B % mentoring and revision sessions with scientists, medical 100 and dental students and Centre of the Cell staff. There is also a Youth Forum who are engaged in the front-evaluation of all new content ideas, and have 80 opportunities to take part in special projects. For instance, during 2013/14, the Heritage Lottery Fund funded a group of 60 14–18 year olds to research the East End’s medical history. Their aim was to understand and translate key changes 40 in practice and knowledge into a science show that they would then share with family audiences at Centre of the Cell. The group committed to weekly workshops with additional 20 school holiday sessions and museum visits over the course YMS LONDON of a year, working with the Museum 0 and Archives. With help from Centre of the Cell’s Learning Team, they developed the skills, knowledge and UNIVERSITY AFTER SCHOOL understanding of how to design and lead sessions for family audiences, working as a team to create scripts, costumes and props. The resulting show, ‘Spores, Sores and Sickly Bugs’, was a great hit with young people and their families. The youth team then completed their project by training the next generation of Youth Members to deliver the show to future audiences. It is too soon to properly evaluate the impact of the YMS but there are some encouraging initial data. Of 130 youth members who have now left school that we have been able to contact, 91% are in education or training compared to 62% of 2013 Key stage 5 leavers in London, 88% are at university compared to 48% in higher education of 2013 Key Stage 5 leavers in London. [ http://www.london.gov.uk/ sites/default/files/Education-Report-2014.pdf ] 79% of these past YMS members are studying STEM subjects in higher education and 20% are studying at QMUL or its medical school. The generous funding from The Aldgate and All Hallows Foundation and The Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust has enabled Centre of the Cell to deliver the YMS scheme with plans to expand the scheme further over the longer term. Participant statistics The graph below shows monthly numbers of participants for on site and off site activities in the past three years and the current year to date. While numbers were relatively constant 2009–2014, it is interesting that the large increase in visitor numbers in the first part of 2014–15 is due to an increasing demand for our science shows and workshops both on and off site. Approximately 50% of all participants are at schools within a ten-mile radius of Centre of the Cell but there are visitors from all over London – and beyond, including some from outside the UK.

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3000 2014–15 2013–14 2500 2012–13 2011–12 Evaluation and Impact 2000 The front-end evaluation described above involved target audiences in schools and hospitals, assessing their needs 1500 and interests, what they expected to see and do in the exhibition and their knowledge and interest in cell biology 1000 and biomedicine. When asked “what is a cell?” the replies ranged from “prison cell”, and “cell phone” to “battery cell”. 500 We also assessed the needs of visitors with disabilities, and conducted subject-specific evaluation to determine 0 target audiences’ knowledge and interest of particular

FEB subjects, including diseases, medicine, microscopes and JUL SEP JAN DEC APR JUN OCT MAY NOV AUG MAR the acceptability of displaying specimens of human organs (the latter evaluation was extremely popular as we took human specimens from our pathology museum into school classes). The website and digital interactive games were also evaluated pre- and during development. Post-launch, we assess whether the key goal of inspiring and motivating the project participants has been achieved; the effect on career choices and educational aspirations and what we have learned and how we can enhance the learning, mentoring and training experience. The overall response is positive, especially in terms of achieving learning outcomes and accessing higher education. From the evaluation data to date, 76% of the young people stated that they ‘enjoyed’ or ‘really enjoyed’ their session. 75% were more interested in science after the session and 71% said they felt they knew more about university.

Staff structure A senior research scientist (Fran Balkwill) directs the project, as well as leading a cancer research centre within QMUL at the Barts Cancer Institute. The Learning Team runs day-to-day activities (4 full time members of staff) supported by the Operations team (two full time members of staff). Approximately 15 medical and dental students work part-time (see also below) to support the core staff and developers of new content work on fixed term contracts. Development of new public Advantages to university staff engagement activities and students Continued success is dependent on development of new The presence of a science education and public activities and content. Being part of a research university engagement project within a working research laboratory means there is a limitless and ever-changing resource of has a number of positive impacts on QMUL’s biomedical new science stories and scientific expertise. The original and life sciences research and its researchers. Stimulating idea for a new activity can come from our scientists and a climate of enthusiasm for public engagement amongst clinicians and/or our community: for instance, a new and staff, Centre of the Cell also allows researchers to effectively exciting science story; a health issue of particular relevance engage with the public to a high standard because they to our local audiences, or to patients and their carers; can combine their knowledge and expertise with that the need to understand careers in the life sciences, of professionals who have experience and training in or a request from teachers for help with professional public engagement with the life sciences. Centre of development and communication of cutting-edge science. the Cell staff can also use their training to run lectures As our research is so closely interwoven with the needs on science communication for undergraduate and of the local East London community, Centre of the Cell can postgraduate students. also facilitate research projects, especially in terms of There are other benefits for undergraduates. A scheme recruitment of local volunteers. funded by St Bartholomew’s Medical College Trust supports Funding for new activities may be embedded in research medical and dental students to work part time for Centre of grant applications – many funding bodies have a public the Cell. This gives Centre of the Cell a motivated, informed engagement element and QMUL scientists now routinely and flexible work force and has also been of great benefit incorporate funding for Centre of the Cell within their to the participating students, especially in enhancing their applications. These components may finance workshop communication skills, as well as improving their finances. or show development and delivery; digital interactive As many of the students live locally, they are excellent role games that can be part of a Pod show, and/or available models for Centre of the Cell’s younger visitors from East online and/or as a free standing App; a Big Question London. Postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and Lecture, or new website content. Funding for new activities more senior academics train as STEM ambassadors and can also come from outside sources such as Trusts and then volunteer to help with Pod shows, often giving Foundations, e.g. Wellcome Trust, or from specific grants for impromptu talks about their own research. For instance, public engagement projects. in 2013–14 71% of all Pod shows from schools had a volunteer Once funding is secured, we develop the activity member of QMUL staff in attendance. Finally, Pod shows according to a standard operating procedure that begins are a useful addition to university recruitment and open with definition of the objectives of the project, the desired days and part of a campus tour for VIPs. learning outcomes and front-end evaluation of the activity with the target audience. The iterative development then Support from the host institution moves through further defined stages in a three-way collaboration between Centre of the Cell staff, scientists All this is would not be possible without the wider and and target audiences. sustained support of QMUL and its medical and dental One example of our recent work is a Medical Research school. Starting with its 19th century ‘People’s Palace’, QMUL Council-funded project on the impact of air pollution on has a strong history of public engagement that remains London’s children. Working with a team of paediatricians a key area of strategic importance in the 21st century. led by Professor Jonathan Grigg, Centre of the Cell devised The university has a Centre for Public Engagement as well a three-hour workshop, ‘Something in the Air’. as a Vice-Principal for Public Engagement and Student The learning aims are fourfold: What is air pollution? Enterprise. These structures enable staff to engage with How does air pollution affect people? How can we the public, ensuring they are appropriately recognized and measure air pollution? What can I do to avoid air pollution? rewarded, and are given support through advice, training The event, which is delivered in schools, also has six and help with accessing funding streams. workstations where young people can explore the science behind the research. However, this is more than just Sustainability a public engagement/science communication exercise. Those children whose parents have given informed consent During the past five years Centre of the Cell has received are recruited into the research study during the workshop. major financial support from QMUL, with specific The paediatrics team obtain sputum, urine and DNA projects funded by a wide range of charitable trusts samples from them, and conduct lung function and and foundations such as the Mercers’ Company, skin-prick allergy tests. Once recruitment is complete The Leathersellers’ Charitable Trust, Heart Research UK, in Spring/Summer 2015, the team will return to the schools The Aldgate & Allhallows Foundation, and The Equitable to update them on the findings of the research, and evaluate Charitable Trust. Now that much of the new content is the impact of the project on their understanding of air funded by a proportion of research grants obtained by our pollution and the work of scientists. scientists, the aim is to achieve financial security by a combination of earned income from shows and workshops, as well as sponsorship for activities such as the YMS, with a decreasing contribution from the medical school and QMUL. Workshop and science show charging has been in place since 2012 and we began to charge for Pod shows in September 2013. What have we learnt so far? A science education centre inside a laboratory building can be inspirational both for visitors and research staff. To anyone considering a similar project, the key recommendations are to conduct detailed ‘front-end’ evaluation with target audiences before the project begins, exploit fully the unique resource of the science stories being generated in the laboratory that houses the science centre, think about sustainability from the start of the project – and remember to provide adequate toilets and space for visitors to eat their lunch. Apart from that, although it is certainly hard work and can be very challenging, our experience is that it is very rewarding and – importantly - great fun.

Centre of the Cell’s future Our major priority is the successful completion of a capital fundraising campaign for a second Pod, Neuron Pod. With 60% of funding promised from donors including Wellcome Trust, Wolfson Foundation and Barts and the London Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Hobson Charity, Neuron Pod is central to the project’s sustainable future. This second Will Alsop building, to be positioned in the Blizard Mews and accessed by the same bridge as the existing Pod, has potential to double visitor numbers and dwell time on site, providing a dedicated space for all science shows, workshops, youth member activities as well as providing opportunities for new adult initiatives and at the weekend. All this will take place in the context of further redevelopment of Whitechapel to build a major Biomedical and Life Sciences campus that will focus on population health, especially in relation to East London, and place a high priority on public engagement. The project must also reflect the fast moving pace of life sciences and biomedical research with new content and activities added on an annual basis and existing content refreshed. The digital nature of the fixed exhibition in the Pod means that this can readily be changed, and also can be tiered to different age groups and abilities. Amongst new projects for 2015 there are two digital interactive games for the Pod nucleus. One will feature genomics for a Wellcome Trust funded Strategic Grant, East London Genes for Health, the other will build a tumour microenvironment and then attempt to destroy it with the latest immune therapies. The latter interactive is part of an ERC-funded project – CANBUILD – [ http://bioengineer.org/building- 3d-model-ovarian-cancer/ ] – to build a human tumour and the interactive will be updated from time-to-time in line with research findings. Keeping our digital Pod at the cutting edge of IT, we will fundraise for more Advantages of siting a science centre display objects that we will bring to life with Augmented in a research laboratory Reality technology. • Engenders a climate of enthusiasm for public engagement with research • Improves science communication and public engagement skills of staff and students • Venue to aid recruitment of new students and staff • Allows high quality and wide-ranging public engagement with research • Allows unique public engagement projects to be incorporated into research grant applications • Aids recrutiment of volunteers to population health research projects • Increases research impact Staff

Professor Akmol Hussain Katie Chambers Liz Danner Frances Balkwill Head of Head of Learning OBE FMedSci, Operations Learning & Access Director of Akmol joined Katie leads Manager Centre of Centre of the Cell the Learning Liz supports the Cell in June 2013 and Team at Centre STEM Fran Balkwill has leads on all of the Cell. Ambassadors been Director of operational and After completing and coordinates Centre of the financial a degree in the Youth Cell since the beginning of the management at the Centre. Biological Sciences, Katie gained Membership Scheme, providing project and an author of science Having worked on the London her MSc in Communicating activities and events for local books for children. She also leads 2012 Olympic project for the Science and worked in the young people. She applied her the Centre for Cancer and Mayor’s Office and qualified science centres Techniquest and MSc in Forensic Anthropology Inflammation at Barts Cancer to APM level, Akmol brings with At-Bristol. Katie first joined Centre identifying museum collections Institute. Her scientific interests him a wealth of experience of the Cell in 2005 as the and engaging the public with include translating knowledge of and knowledge in project Audience and Content history at University College cancer biology into new biological management and delivery as Researcher. She left in 2008 to London and The Roman Baths. treatments for cancer, and novel well as large scale budget complete a PGCE and worked in After completing the HLF Skills methods of modelling the human management. Akmol is also schools in London and Bangkok for the Future Education and tumour microenvironment. responsible for the strategic before returning as Head of Outreach Traineeship with the and long term sustainability Learning in 2012. University of Oxford Museums Alexandra of Centre of the Cell. and Collections, she joined Centre Jenkin Mohammed of the Cell as Learning and Access Learning Rebecca Rofik Manager maternity cover in 2014. & Outreach Knowlson Finance Officer Learning & Administrative Ameerah Khan Alex has been & Outreach Officer Learning a Learning and Officer Rofik is the & Outreach Outreach Officer Rebecca has Finance and Officer at Centre of the been a Learning Admin officer at Ameerah Cell for two years. After studying and Outreach the Centre of joined Centre Natural Sciences she completed Officer at Centre the cell. He is the first point of of the Cell in an MSc in Science Communication of the Cell since November 2014. contact for any enquiries for December 2012 and started working in education. After studying Human Biology bookings as well as general and is a As well as presenting Centre of she completed an MSc in Science queries. Rofik joined Centre of Learning and Outreach Officer. the Cell’s shows and workshops Communication and shortly the Cell in February 2015 having After completing her BSc in Alex has been working with afterwards joined Centre of the gained qualifications in Business Psychology, she worked within the a group of deaf and hearing- Cell as an Explainer. As well Management/Administration and recruitment industry for a impaired young people to help as presenting Centre of the also working in the education professional services company. them develop their own science Cell’s shows and workshops, sector for 10 years, in various Ameerah now works as part of demonstrations. She is looking Rebecca developed an A-Level roles such as an instructor and two teams and also sits within the forward to working on new Immunology workshop called Pastoral manager. Centre for Paediatrics. She has content for Centre of the Cell ‘Invasion! Infection and Immunity’ been leading the ‘Something in in the near future. and is currently working on Carla Brown the Air’ project developing and developing a new interactive Content delivering workshops on air Gioia Mosler on the Tumour Microenvironment Developer pollution and coordinates the Learning for the Centre of the Cell Pod Carla is one engagement of schools in a & Outreach and website. of the newest medical research project looking Officer members of the at airway cells and air pollution. Gioia is the Ros Croker Centre of Cell Learning Young Roots team. Although Elise & Outreach Project Manager only here for Allthorps-Mullis Officer working Ros Croker several months, she will be Content both as part manages the designing and creating a new Developer of the Centre of the Cell team, HLF-Funded game for the Pod on the fun Elise is a Content as well as with the Centre for youth project and gory details of bowel health! Developer at Genomics and Child Health at the Wartime Carla is just finishing her PhD in Centre of the Cell. Blizard Institute. Gioia has recently Medicine and gut microbiology and is also After completing finished her PhD in environmental Innovation part-time working in designing a second microbiology a degree in epidemiology at Imperial College partnership with the Science game with a Dundee based Astrophysics Elise worked at London, which focused on air Museum and Royal London game design company. Science Centres, museums and pollution and health effects. Hospital Museum and Archives. festivals creating interactive Throughout her work in science She has broad experience of exhibitions and events exploring she has volunteered to work as developing and managing formal everything from advanced a science communicator. In her and informal learning programmes prosthetics to 3D printing. current role she facilitates the across heritage, visual arts and Elise joined the Centre of the Cell collaboration between schools architecture sectors for different team in 2015, and although only and health research for the organisations including National here for several months, will be ‘School-Based Asthma Project’. Maritime Museum, RIBA and developing a new game about As part of the project she is English Heritage. She has worked genetics. This game will be a fun furthermore developing a range freelance as a tutor for V&A youth new addition to the pod, and will of interactive games on asthma programme, evaluating education be made into an app that for a school-based intervention. programmes for Flow Associates scientists can take on the road to and in partnership with Office Sian inspire the community about Architects delivering workshops genetic research. at the ICA. Funders We are grateful to all our funders over the past 10 years and especially to Queen Mary University of London.

Queen Mary University of London Jack Petchey Foundation The Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust Wellcome Trust The Ingram Trust The Garfield Weston Foundation UK Clinical Research Collaboration National Lottery The Clore Duffield Foundation The Equitable Charitable Trust London Development Agency The Society for General Microbiology The Medical College of Saint Bartholomew’s St Katharine and Shadwell Trust The Wessex Youth Trust Hospital Trust Department for Children Schools & Families The Aldgate & Allhallows Foundation Innovation Ltd The Hobson Charity Limited Merk, Sharp and Dohme The Gosling Foundation The Drapers’ Company The Salters’ Company Barts Charity MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology London Science Challenge The James Dyson Foundation Heart Research UK The Wolfson Foundation The Armourers & Brasiers’ Gauntlet Trust GlaxoSmithKline Merchant Taylor’s Company Sandra Charitable Trust Nesta 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust Barts Health NHS Trust Engage Awards London Excellence Hub Cancer Research UK The Hadley trust Heritage Lottery Fund Tom Ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust The Mercers’ Company Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Allen & Overy City Educational Trust Fund Celltech Clothworkers Foundation UCB Pharma The Foyle Foundation EU Reseachers Night Ipsen Limited The City of London The Grocers’ Charity Man Group Plc Charitable Trust Sir James Roll Charitable Trust Tesco Charity Trust Deutsche Bank The Hedley Foundation Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation The Thomas Wall Trust The Lehman Brothers Foundation Emerton Christie Charitable Trust British Heart Foundation BBC Children in Need A F Trust Company Wingate Foundation Coutts & Co Charitable Trust Oliver Bird The Leathersellers’ Company Arbitrator’s Company Barclays Capital Chartred Accountants’ Company The Goldsmiths’ Company The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust The Company of Actuaries Charitable Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation The Kohn Foundation East London Business Alliance The Roger Brooke Charitable Trust London Borough of Tower Hamlets The Girdlers’ Company Buzzacott Stuart Defries Memorial Fund The Schroder Foundation The Reuben Brothers Foundation Pfizer Wilkinson Family Charitable Trust The London Oil & Colour Paint Chemist Association Centre of the Cell Blizard Building 4 Newark Street Whitechapel London E1 2AT 020 7882 2562 „ Whitechapel [email protected] www.centreofthecell.org

The Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation has been supporting the education of young people in the area of the City of London and Tower Hamlets for over three centuries. It assists local primary and secondary schools and the organisations that work with them to develop learning beyond normal classroom experiences. It also funds scholarships to support individual students in need at Queen Mary University of London. During the period 2009 to 2013 its grants to the Centre of the Cell have been approximately £100,000. The Foundation is pleased to contribute to the production costs of this review.